Nick names

At this point it is driving my DH nuts and tonight again we had another "discussion" about it ---- my LO's nick name from the NICU. I started calling him Lada, which was short for Enchilada. They used to bundle him up so tight that he used to look like everyone's favorite Mexican meal...He no longer likes to be bundled, but Lada stuck.

I call him Lah-dy. I call him Lada-licious. I call him Ladster... My DH thinks we need to stop or he will soon start answering to Lada (not a good thing )

So, do you have a nick for your LO that originated in the NICU and stuck?

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From birth I have relied on You; You brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise You. Psalm 71

Lada is cute, I like it :) Plus, it has a lot of meaning, I would keep it. What if he starts answering to it? I think my daughter is confused too because we call her cutie, cutie pie or baby as much as we call her Castalia ...She's got to be confused too and her nicknames are quite boring and unoriginal so...I think Lada is really cute a nd means so much!

I'm a mean mom....I call my dd booger butt and fatty (shes fat to me!). I also call her sister which originated in the Nicu when my roommate would not stop calling her dd sister and then I heard it so much I ended up calling J that too...Chase hates my nicknames for her!

The nicer names I use are baby girl and jaders (I always called her that when I was pregnant).

My MIL calls her Roo because she was like a little kangaroo baby that came out too early and needed to be cooked more. I like the concept but roo just sounds wierd haha

Ha! My mom calls Raegan "Chalupa". It was an inside joke between my mom and the transport nurse that took Raegan to another hospital for her PDA Ligation surgery. I didn't even ask the story, I don't want to know. LOL

DH calls Ashton "Poop Head" or "Poo Stick". I guess on his first diaper change she just kept pooing and pooing.

We don't find out gender ahead of time, so we ended up calling dd Pipsqueak in utero. I think ds #2 came up with it--or was reading a book and someone else suggested it, I forget! The boys were really into calling her Pipsqueak. I had even gathered a box or two of items and in the storage room in the basement, I label EVERYTHING, so I had her boxes labeled "Pipsqueak!"

When her admitting nurse to the NICU heard about that, she wrote "Welcome Pipsqueak!" on her board in her room and drew a little mouse (she was a GREAT nurse). The boys loved that, and it was a way for them to relate to her.

The name dropped off alot, but I've heard it come out of my mouth a few times lately--she is TINY still (at 12 1/2mo she was 17lb, 27.5"). I also call her pumpkin some or sweetie, but no real nicknames.

The worst thing was she didn't have name when she was born! Even thoguh we don't find out gender until birth, both my boys had names the second we found out they were boys! At least she was a girl though. We had a TERRIBLE time picking out a boy name for ds #2 and had no luck this time around. We immediately had 3 names to consider for girls, so I refused to look much further. We had no set middle name for one of them, so we threw that out, and it took us a few hours to decide between the other two. I actually told dh he could choose! Okay, so I was doped up. When I mentioned I was leaning towards a name, he said let's do it, and let the NICU know her name (they make fancy name tags for the isolettes). It took a bit to feel real though.

Okay, so I turned this into my own personal therapy, I guess. Just one of those preemie issues.